Yet another thing the Democrat Party has “borrowed” from the Republicans…

Online Fundraising? McCain raised millions online back in 2000!

Master Databases? Karl Rove. Voter Vault. 10 years ahead of the dems.

Fiscal Responsibility? Only recently have the Dems picked up on this Republican gem (only since the Reps have fumbled the ball in recent years).

And now… how sad that Obama finds the need to copy Pat Buchanan’s public fist bump.

I realize that it is difficult for Dems to actually come up with ideas and plans (that aren’t written by their PR folks, Darcy), but at least give the Republicans credit when you keep stealing their stuff.

And what does the Democrat Party give back to Republicans? Sex scandals and corruption.

Hey Roger Roadkill @1, you need some anger counseling. Get the carrot out of your ass and hop on over to the couch and let a professional give you a diagnosis of which of the DSM IV maunal afflictions you suffer from. Godspeed chap.

More importantly, when forced to choose between Obama’s proposal for a responsible troop withdrawal and a shift of resources to the U.S. and McCain’s commitment to stay the course but have most troops out of Iraq by 2013, Democrats win the argument by double-digit margins. Engaging in the Iraq debate allows Democrats to reach out to independents and winnable voters well beyond their electoral support.

Here’s the real stupidity of the “Carter 2nd term” idiocy. Conservatives are well-known to believe that their pet ideological dogma are actually, objectively true. Any attempt to inform them that they are pretty much uniformly false by reference to objective standards is met with utter incomprehension on their parts. So knowing this, here I go anyway:

Gallup’s Feb. 9-11, 2007 poll asked Americans to rate their overall opinion of the three living former presidents. Americans are quite positive in their ratings of all three presidents, but slightly more so in their views of Carter. Sixty-nine percent of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of Carter…

You see, the reason it works to say “McCain would be a Bush third term” is because most people dislike Bush.

Just saw this Rossi Press Release– “Redmond, WA – The Dino Rossi for Governor campaign today announced raising $701,112 during the month of May. In addition, Rossi raised $201,679 in the first eight days of June, bringing his to-date fundraising total for the campaign to $5,349,175. As of the end of May, Rossi’s cash-on-hand total is $3,439,372.

“Our fundraising is one more indication that this race is extremely close and competitive,” said Jill Strait, Rossi spokesperson. “May was our second best month of fundraising since kicking-off our campaign in October, and June is already off to a great start. Despite the incumbent’s three-year head start in fundraising, we have come remarkably close to her cash-on-hand total. People in Washington state are energized behind Dino Rossi and with their help we’ve been able to consistently show strong fundraising numbers since we started this campaign for change.”

The average contribution to the Rossi for Governor campaign is $89.07. Only 2.3 percent of the money raised by Rossi has come from out-of-state. By comparison, as of the end of the April over 15 percent of Gregoire’s money was raised out-of-state.

Financial support of Rossi’s 2008 gubernatorial campaign is well ahead of money raised during the 2004 election. In the last campaign, it was mid-October before Rossi raised over $5.1 million.”

It’s interesting how much cable news has followed the lead of local news over the years: burning warehouses and isolated crimes lead, graphic video and aren’t-criminals-stupid stories provide filler, and useless advice from experts on brain health and nutrition provide the rest. And now (as long as the stories themselves are retarded, and there aren’t enough to fill 24 hours) you can’t read the news without a few people around to slow everything down further by emoting and going, “wha’, you-think?”

10 – Oh Surreal. If Gallup is a partisan hack outfit, it’s for the Republicans. Wingnuts have long cited the Gallup polls.

Let’s see the latest from Wingnuttia has called Obama’s fist taps “terrorist”. That’s your style Surreal. Total bullcrap of course designed to waste news cycles and detract from the real issues of the total failure of the Republicans.

What else? Not much. Running out of steam much Surreal?

Oh cut and run. Exactly what Ronnie Raygun did in Lebanon. Just think. What if Raygun just sacrificed a nap or two and played “resolute”? Naaah. Wrong place. No oil.

Okay, open thread, so I get to post this one, for general information.

In light of the continuing legal battle over the Sonics and the Key Arena, and the U.W.s “wish list” to replace Husky Stadium sometime in the foreseeable future, it is interesting to note that Jerry Jones was bragging about spending 1.1 Billion Dollars on his new stadium in a speech to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. Why would you spend so much money on a stadium which only hosts eight regular-season home games a year?

“Jones said he could have built the new facility for about $700M. “The reason I’m spending [$1.1B] on that stadium in Arlington is because of perception,” he said. “Only a fraction of football fans will ever set foot in it, but hundreds of millions will see it on television.” How the stadium looks is important, he said, as well as “how John Madden talks about it, and how Al Michaels talks about it, and let me assure you that after I’ve had some time with them, they’ll know everything there is to know about it.””

Since this is an ‘open’ thread…why are almost all homeless men? I know there ARE homeless women (I’ve seen a few), I’m mostly talking about the ‘street’ homeless, the ones who are sleeping in Pioneer Square or begging for money on Broadway or U District. Seems to be about 90% men. Why is that? Shouldn’t women make up 50% of the homeless? Actually more probably because they’re statistically more economically vulnerable. Why are the homeless on the street (almost) all men. If you’re just going to say the women are in shelters…then why aren’t the men in the shelters too?

There you go again… skimming and spouting when you should have actually taken a minute to READ what I wrote. My critique was of the post at EIGHT (8), which was NOT citing GALLUP, but Carville’s partisan outfit and their push polling.

So long… thanks for playing… enjoy that Kool-Aid.

P.S. I said nothing about Obama’s fist bump other than saying Buchanan did it first.

Carter was an utter failure as a president. He seemed to do better in later life with a hammer and nails… more power to him.

The Gallup poll asked if people had a “favorable overall opinion” of the three presidents. If you count his charity work after leaving office, his books, whatever… I can believe that the general public feels a bit warm and fuzzy. But that doesn’t mean his leadership of the country was any less incompetent.

The general public can have a 65% favorable overall opinion of Larry the Cable Guy, but that doesn’t mean he is fit to be President.

Huh? Vastly greater numbers of Democrats newly registered and showed up for the primaries this year, majority for Obama, who is now the nominee. If even a chunk of those new voters turn out, the Republicans are screwed. Rosi only barely lost/won (depending on your view) the last election by a couple hundred votes. Given that Bush is FAR less popular now, the war less popular, Republicans less popular, and Washington State is doing well (5th best in the NATION to do business, low unemployment compared to nation, weathering the mortgage crisis better than national averages, etc)…how exactly is THIS his year if he couldn’t take it last time?

16: Having worked as a board member for a non-profit homeless shelter for women and families, I think I can answer that question.

Primarily, there are more homeless men than women visible on the street because:

a) there are comparitavely more resources (shelters) available for women; and

b) more friends and relatives are willing to take in women than men, despite their other problems;

c) women who are on the street despite (a) and (b) try to make themselves less visable, as they are considered easy prey for the other street dwellers; and

d) When homeless are on the street for purely economic reasons, it is usually the man who leaves the home and becomes “homeless” so that the wife and children can qualify for welfare.

Most of the homeless you see on the street usually have alchohol or drug problems. The homeless you DONT see are the ones who are trying to keep a very low profile – many are living out of cars, keeping on the move to a different location every night to keep their car from being towed. Many park at Wal-Marts every night, but they have to rotate between them.

FlipFlop McCain is having trouble shaking the rumors that he fathered a black child. While this should make Puddydick posting as Rick D proud that he now knows who his father is, won’t it piss of the far right inbred assholes who make up the core of the GOP?

Why has McCain worked so hard to keep people who lost their relatives to Viet Nam prison camps in the dark? What about his experience in captivity is he worried we’ll find out? He’s already admitted he provided aide and comfort to the enemy. Did he do worse?

Is it true that the WEA forced the state to turn down $13 million from private charity? The money was supposed to provide pay for deserving teachers of science and math, but the WEA didn’t like that and forced the state to not accept the money. Is that true? If it is, I think that sucks.

When did he admit to providing aid and comfort to the enemy? Provide a link…

That smear campaign was already discredited a long time ago.

No evidence McCain was a traitor

He… gave the names of the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line and said they were members of his squadron.

Because of the seriousness of the charge, the utter absence of evidence and the clear intention to harm McCain just days before a critical Republican primary, we find this claim to be Pants on Fire wrong.”

Tell me something — since you keep bringing up Obama’s associations with Ayers, Khalidi, Rezko, the New Party, etc… Have you even bothered to read about any of this on your own? I mean, besides the MorOn.org talking points?

Obama admits to the associations. Who these criminals / terrorists are is not in question, either. Not sure if he’s addressed the association with the DSA / New Party (Marxists) in 1996.

AFAIK, none of those guys are in jail unlike Abramoff who the White House desperately tries to pretend never existed despite 6 meetings with the big Kahuna himself in the Oval Office.

There’s nothing there. People with views different from yours exist in minority communities. I suppose if Obama did the Corporate board and cocktail circuit with his Harvard education you’d give him the “centrist” seal of approval. But no, Obama went back to his community.

Very suspect indeed.

And despite my refusal to march to your tune, I really doubt you won’t “talk” about this any further.

Mark if it’s not too much trouble read your hero’s fucking book or just search on this blog as I have provided these links a dozen times. Face it-denying the truth doesn’t change it. Your boy is working overtime to keep the public from getting more of this information at the cost of real heros who were lost – just to cover his ass.

Yesterday, I was very skeptical about the political ramifications of a windfall profits tax. I thought it could backfire on Democrats. I’ve changed my mind.

The purpose of the tax is to prevent GOUGING and to encourage the oil companies to produce oil. If the oil companies do what they’re supposed to be doing they should have NOTHING to fear from a well-written windfall profits tax.

GOUGING is the oil outfits’ best friend and worst enemy. They can’t do it for too long. Otherwise the people will get wise to their bullshit and punish them for it. And they’ve been doing it through disinvestment. They don’t need more oil leases. There are plenty they’ve sat on for years. ANWR and the outer continental shelf is just a distraction. What they’re doing now is working just fine for them.

If the oil companies really know what’s good for them they will turn on outfits like Morgan Stanley which are driving the futures market up.

Windfall profits tax and closing the Enron loophole – YES

But good luck on getting that through the filibuster happy minority in the Senate and past the veto pen of the idiot in the Oval Office.

Note that I didn’t mention Wright or Pfleger. Those associations are just a sign of Obama’s immature, poor judgment.

Rezko is headed to jail, son. The depth of the Khalidi association has yet to be fully investigated, but we know he’s done fundraising for Obama. The DSA / New Party has yet to be fully investigated, but he was on their ticket and associated with them in 1996.

Ayers BOMBED government buildings. Nothing Abramoff did compares to domestic terrorism. And it would be one thing if Ayers was sorry — if he was “reformed” — but that mf is unapologetic and wishes he’d done more.

The fact that you think Ayers is just some kind of “minority opinion” tells me that either your HA posts are nothing but trolling, you are a Kool-Aid-swilling simpleton or you truly hate this country.

35 – Fish in the sea, my dear sillyman. Obama’s record in public life points to no indication of any out of the mainstream beliefs or unethical/illegal activity. Instead it indicates reaching out wherever to get things done. His economic team hovers around the U. of Chicago neo-liberal Rubin style which has given more than a few people on the left some heartburn.

That’s reality.

Your fantasy is the same old victory by guilt-by-association swift-boating that right wingers have been playing since BEFORE McCarthy.

This country has nothing to fear from the likes of me or anyone backing Obama – everything to fear from the likes of those who brought us the last 7 years and wants to extend that indefinitely into the future.

Obviously you can’t read. Shall I repeat? Oil companies who are truly in the oil business have nothing to fear from a windfall profits tax. It’s there to deter gouging. If they build refineries instead of enriching their executives and major shareholders, they have nothing to fear.

But that’s not all, more infrastructure just means oil will deplete that much faster. So why not invest in renewables? The recent legislation filibustered by your team had that carrot.

The oil execs say the price should be much lower. What’s the difference? Again I repeat – they should advocate clamping down on excessive speculation – close the Enron loophole, which by the way, Clinton had a part in bringing about IIRC.

The oil companies demand huge tax breaks, on the basis that their business is capital intensive and risky. They claim that tax incentives that make the business less risky are in the public interest.

Ok, I’ll bite. But… (don’t you just hate it when that word comes up?)

Risk and return go hand-in-hand in traditional capitalism. Profits are adjusted by the marketplace, after businesses decide how much (of pretty much anything) to produce by looking at both the risk and the return.

Except that the oil companies want the public to take the risk, while they keep the return.

Can I really blame the oil companies? No, I suppose not. While ExxonMobil and BP and Chevron may run TV ads claiming that they consider themselves as holders of a precious public trust, the reality is that they’re in business to maximize profits, and if we’re gullible enough to believe that drek, we deserve to be fleeced.

Since they bellied up to the public trough to reduce their risk, that same public will now insist on getting some of the return.

Will the oil companies like it? No, of course not. Given their choice, they would have the public take the entire risk, while keeping the entire return for themselves. (This doesn’t make them evil, just good businessmen.)

So our elected officials will have to make sure that it doesn’t happen that way.

John Barelli: You are a smart man; so please look up anywhere on this blog where I supported the oil industry getting tax breaks.

Go on you can even ask HAs clueless idiot to help you. When you wake up and realize I don’t support their tax breaks we can continue to dialog.

Now to the rest of your entry. When a company makes 10% or less on it’s investment most people are ready to run the management team out of town. I for one want to see my pension funds continue to flourish.

Recent polling data from Gallup show the percentage of voters blaming oil companies for skyrocketing gasoline prices has dropped from 34 percent to 20 percent over the past year. Hmmm… Maybe they researched this and found out Oil Companies don’t set the price. Your friends at NYMEX do. Maybe novercorrectnottobright will get educated.

At the same time, support for more drilling in U.S. coastal and wilderness areas has increased to 57 percent from 41 percent. Naaahhh it can’t be. Nevercorrectnottobright doesn’t agree.

clueless idiot, you can’t fathom truths. Oil companies should not be hit with punitive taxes just because they make $.095 profit. I see you didn’t read the 10K.

So as someone said above the Bakken fields beneath North Dakota, Montana, and Canada hold an estimated 400 billion barrels of oil. ANWR has another estimated 10.4 billion barrels. Bureau of Land Management has 279 million acres under federal management where oil and gas could potentially be extracted. Greater than 50% is totally off limits by law. Off-shore, we have another 86 billion barrels lie in wait, is also restricted. But the Chinese are slant drilling and taking our oil in the Gulf of Mexico and the pendejo crowd here doesn’t care. Then there’s liquefied natural gas, oil shale, and the various coal-to-liquid carbon-capture and sequestration technologies available but ignored by leftist pinheads.

You will NEVER convince a Dem that ANY kind of tax is bad — especially if it hits big, bad corporations.

The thing they won’t admit is that 100 million Americans would be negatively impacted by any sort of capital gains tax. Not just the individual shareholders, but anyone whose retirement accounts rely on investments.

Here’s that tax we SHOULD impose: a union “luxury” tax and profits tax. The 25% luxury tax would be on the the portion of any union leader’s salary that is greater than 250% of his average member’s salary. They should also be taxed at corporate rates for any money they take in above-and-beyond money directly used for contract negotiation or member benefits.

We must put a stop to union leaders that show up at a rally in the pouring rain, spout off for 15 minutes and then dive back into their cozy Continentals.

It’s common knowledge that treasonous America-hating, commie-fascist Republicans like Puddy and Mark want the women of the North Mariannas Islands to continue to suffer forced abortions just to enrich the profits of a few corporations. The forced abortions also clean up the mess left behind by Republican congressmen following their Abramoff-paid junkets to the islands to have sex with children. Limbaugh would have gone along for the fun and games but he and his jug of Viagra had a date with some kid in the Dominican Republic. I tell ya, you’ve got to be a real freak to be a Republican these days. Mark and Puddy qualify.

A former aide to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who also played a leadership role in Iowa’s College Republicans was arrested by Des Moines-area police earlier in the week on outstanding warrants related to his status as a convicted sex offender.

Steve…be nice now…almost my entire family is republican, down to my grandparents and younger brother (who is union)…I am the black sheep for politics in my family, but I would never think of them as freaks or say they should ties up and sent to camps…even they dislike GWB and alot of others in office.

@49 Why mention Democrats? There is no significant number of pedophile Democrats. On the other hand, pedophiles have been welcomed into the Republican party with open arms (yuk!). Geez, is that your new base? What’d you do – give up on the Left Behinders? Or did they give up on you? Did those people figure out that you lie to your base more often than you lie to anybody else?

@50 I’m sorry. No offence to you or yours was intended. But until somebody on the right shows even a drop of concern about the infestation of pedophiles witin the Republican ranks, I’ll just have to throw this in Troll’s faces now and again. But I’ll somehow try to be more considerate of other readers such as yourself.

TRM @ 51 – actually I have had great conversation with Steve, and I don’t think he is a full fledged liberal or conservative…he acts out here though ;-)

But just because someone voted for GWB or supports the conservative/republican values, doesn’t mean they are the ones to blame for our country being in shambles, as so many here think. I get info from all sides before I make up my mind, I lean left, but I also value some of the rights views and ideas as I also disagree with some of the left ideas. The way some talk on here, my parents, grandparents, brother, aunts, uncles…should all be in prison for voting for GWB…yeah ok right…like THEY had the power to ruin this country. :)

And besides, the dems most voted in, in 2006 haven’t changed anything (yeah the argument is they don’t have enough control)…well when they made all those promises during campaigns….they knew then they wouldn’t have control with a Republican president, so were those just lies they told?

My family really brings me into political discussions, I pick their brains and they pick mine…hoping to come to a medium, which we always do! :)

“But just because someone voted for GWB or supports the conservative/republican values, doesn’t mean they are the ones to blame for our country being in shambles,”

Ummmm. . . yes it does mean they are the ones to blame. Elections have consequences and those consequences can only come about when we elect, but especially re-elect people who are proven not to have the public’s best interest at heart.

Read Al Gore’s book The Assault on Reason. You’ll have a better understanding the right-wing nuts and the literal propaganda they are fed from the RNC and the current administration.

Can’t wait to get my hands on Scott McClellan’s book What Happened. It documents how Bush and the Republicans purposefully used propaganda to steer this country towards war.

Then, to ignore the proof right before the publics very eyes then vote for them again, it is THEIR fault and theirs alone.

@52 Have you considered that people under $50K should pay taxes? As someone who’s been both dirt poor and wealthy, I think they should. Not much, but at least some. If you need an upside, it would at least take away a tired talking point of the commie-fascist right.

@ 66: What’s worse about McCain’s comments is that he thinks bringing the troops home isn’t “too important.” Although, the generals in the military have stated many times that we cannot sustain the tempo of operations in Iraq.

For someone who wants to be the Commander-in-Chief he’s really out of touch regarding the issues of this war.

Steve: Do you remember Leon Rouse? Puddy does. Rouse, is a convicted child molester of underage sex charges in the Philippines. Rouse, was hired in 2007-2008 as an employee of a Democrat-controlled Hawaii state Legislative Committee.

Bybygoober’s cousin Rouse was arrested in the Philippines on October 4, 1995, and later convicted for paying 200 pesos to have sex with a 15-year-old boy. Insert Howard Dean’s Yeeeeeeeearrgh screech here.

So many Republican pedophiles! And that’s just a partial list! Looks like the pedophiles left the Church and found the Republican party. What do you think? Is it the atmosphere of fear and repression? That’s my take on it. You commie-fascists have some real pedo issues. Being in denial like you are will not address this very real problem you have.

Hey, Puddy, get a load of this guy! Just one of many Republicans busted for pedophilia.

Wisconsin GOP chair faces charges in enticement of teenage boy

RAW STORY Published: Sunday October 14, 2007

(via PageOneQ) — Brown County GOP Chairman Donald Fleischman has resigned his post, says a spokesperson, after being accused of enticement and fondling of an underage boy, reports the Green Bay Press-Gazette Saturday.

Fleischman, 37, is free after posting a $20,000 bond on September 28. “My client is innocent of the charges,” says attorney Jeff Jazgar, who “declined to discuss specifics.”

“Our plan is to get some witnesses to testify and present enough information to dismiss the case.”

The boy was found by police in Fleischman’s home on two occasions in late 2006 while being sought as a runaway from Ethan House, a home for at-risk youth. Now 17, he says he stayed with Fleischman at his house and a cabin, where he was provided with alcohol and cannabis, and regularly fondled.

On November 19, 2006, according to a September 7th complaint obtained from the WisPolitics Courtwatch Blog, the boy in question was found hiding in a bedroom closet, and a pipe was found in the house, which tested positive for THC. Shortly after, on December 8, 2006, Fleischman said he was trying to convince the boy, discovered again in the home, to turn himself in as a runaway.

Fleischman faces two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a child, and one count of exposing himself to a child. He returns to court on October 29.

And to just think, Puddy, that you hang out with this crowd. What’s up with that?

DETROIT — A U.S. Justice Department official has been arrested on suspicion of traveling to Detroit over the weekend to have sex with a minor.

John David R. Atchison, 53, an assistant U.S. attorney from the northern district of Florida, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit Monday afternoon.

An undercover officer posed as a mother offering her child to Atchison for sex, according to police.

Prosecutors said Atchison flew from Pensacola, Fla., to Detroit on Sunday intending to have sex with the 5-year-old girl.

He was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

He is charged with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.

According to authorities, Atchison made contact with a detective working undercover for the Macomb County Sheriff’s department’s.

The detective, acting as the child’s mother, allegedly arranged a sexual encounter between Atchison and her 5-year-old daughter, police said.

In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother tell her daughter that “you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents.”

The undercover detective expressed concern about physical injury to the 5-year-old girl as a result of the sexual activity. Detectives said Atchison responded, ” I am always gentle and loving; not to worry, no damage ever, no rough stuff ever. I only like it soft and nice.”

The undercover detective asked how Atchison can be certain of no injury. He responded, “Just gotta go slow and very easy. I’ve done it plenty,” according to detectives.

Atchison, a member of the Florida bar association since 1984, lives in Gulf Breeze, Fla., near Pensacola.

He is president of the Gulf Breeze Sports Association, a youth athletics organization.

He described himself online as a family man. His wife is a science teacher at Gulf Breeze High School.

The Macomb County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI were a part of the investigation.

Atchison remains in federal custody and a detention hearing will be held on Tuesday.

Geez, Puddy, Republican pedophiles killing themselves. I like the trend.

Scandal and suicide on St. Pete City Council

As police investigate allegations of sexual abuse, St. Petersburg City Council Chairman John Bryan kills himself.

By ABHI RAGHUNATHAN, AARON SHAROCKMAN and CHRIS TISCH Published September 8, 2007

ST. PETERSBURG – City Council Chairman John Bryan walked into City Hall just after 1 p.m. Friday and handed in his resignation letter.

Less than five hours later, he was slumped over in a golf cart in the garage of his Floral City house, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. He was 56.

Bryan’s suicide came after news spread Friday that authorities were investigating allegations that he had sexually abused three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15. Ron Stuart, a spokesman for the Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, said the third alleged victim was a nanny for Bryan years ago and no longer lives in the area.

For city officials, the allegations were as jarring as they were sickening. Bryan was a hometown business hero, a pillar of the community, a powerful voice on the City Council and a fierce ally of Mayor Rick Baker.

I just saw McCain on TV complaining about Obama’s tax raises because in his words, “Why would we want to take more of the people’s money and send it to Washington to spend on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it?”

sheesh I am glad I left when I did this afternoon!!! And ALL pedophiles are sick and twisted! No matter what party and we all know they are intermingled amongst the parties, it definately is not a one sided thing.

Things have been looking up for accused child molester Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, the 36-year-old Christian conservative activist and lawyer with close ties to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Scott Baugh, head of the Orange County Republican Party. Police say Nielsen took a 14-year-old Westminster boy as his sex partner in 2003 and maintained a huge cache of man-boy pornography.

But prosecutors have allowed their case against Nielsen, once an intern in the district attorney’s office, to stall for 40 months.

Ironically, those delays have provoked new sex-crime allegations. Saying he fears a subversion of justice, a northern Virginia man claims that Nielsen repeatedly molested him when he was an adolescent.

“For two years, when I was 13 and 14 years old, Jeff sexually abused me while he worked in Washington for Rohrabacher as a legislative aide,” the 25-year-old married man told the Weekly in a recent interview. “There was never any penetration, but other than that? Everything. He wrapped it all up as normal, as love.”

The Virginia man, who asked to remain anonymous, said Nielsen worked in his church’s youth ministry and that his parents rented Nielsen a basement room in their home sometime in 1994 or 1995.

“Jeff took an immediate liking to me,” he said. “When he moved into our house, [the sex] started right away. I know this might sound weird, but at the time he was a mentor and he assured me the messing around was normal. I believed him. I was in the seventh grade at the time. It was brainwashing.”

He says Nielsen orchestrated a “boyfriend-girlfriend type” relationship that included occasional public kissing, hand holding and sex.

“Jeff called it ‘our thing,’ and one time we were near Tyson’s Corner [Virginia], he stopped at a gas station so we could have sex in the bathroom,” the man said. “A guy walked in and caught me with my pants down and Jeff on his knees. We made some excuse about an injured knee or something. The guy said, ‘Oh!’ and quickly left.”

There was also jealousy when the boy expressed an interest in girls, according to the victim.

“[Nielsen] was very controlling and emotional,” he said. “After sex, he’d sometimes say, ‘You know you are gay, right?’ But I wasn’t. I’ve been married now for three years and have a great relationship with my wife. I am very much heterosexual.”

Good ol’ Robert Byrd has set a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism. How? He convinced his friends in the West Virginia State Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol. I bet you didn’t know The statue’s completion violates state law prohibiting statues of government officials until they have been dead for half a century.

But that’s not all Steve:

$2.95 billion: total West Va. pork from 1991 to 2006

$1.935 billion: total West Va. pork from 2000 to 2006

$1.2 billion: total projects added in the Senate from fiscal 1995 to fiscal 2006. (Projects that can most likely be attributed to Sen. Byrd)

In 2007 he added another 9 figger sum.

Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd’s hometown) Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center at Wheeling Jesuit University Robert C. Byrd Highway Robert C. Byrd Federal Correctional Institution Robert C. Byrd High School Robert C. Byrd Freeway Robert C. Byrd Center for Hospitality and Tourism Robert C. Byrd Science Center Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center

Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran’s hospital in Huntington

Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County

Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award

Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove Robert C. Byrd Clinic at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall University

Hannah, A few years ago it dawned on me that I’d heard of just too many Republicans being busted for this kind of thing. So I Googled “Republican pedophile” and a few other searches and was shocked, shocked, I say, at everything that came up. I tried similar searches under “Democrat” and found very little – mostly old stuff about Stubbs. I also found that armchair subversive site during my searching. I also noticed that the site isn’t kept up to date.

Wasn’t there a Washington State Republican who was busted last year while driving around wearing a dress shortly after stiffing (no pun) a male prostitute? Maybe Puddy recalls his name.

My wife watched the TV show “Army Wifes” the other day. First time she had seen it. I haven’t seen it myself, I don’t get to watch too much TV these days.

Anyway, she was telling me over dinner how impressed she was with all the hardship these army wives had to endure.

Then she tells me that there was a piece at the end, where John McCain came on at the end, talking about what heros the army wives are, bravely supporting their husbands who are away at war and such…

I nearly coughed up my dinner right there. Apparantly she hadn’t heard about McCain’s first wife, and how she had waited four years raising their children alone while he was in Vietnam, suffering a disabling accident in the meantime, only to have her husband divorce her for a prettier and wealthier and better politically connected girl after he returned.

@107 I reckon you’d rather avoid discussing the Republican pedophile problem. Projection and denial, that’s the Republican way of dealing with things.

I know, how about we talk about how you guys lied to start a war and then turned around and lost the damned thing following one Republican screw-up after another? Or maybe we could talk about Katrina. I’m sure that’s a winner for you guys.

“Rev. Sheldon is reacting to a Washington Post article published on Oct. 26, describing Mrs. Clinton’s participation in a homosexual Empire State Pride Agenda dinner. At the dinner, a lesbian comedian named Sybil Bruncheon was auctioning off a set of leather chairs. Bruncheon noted, “There’s a big one and a little one, perfect for those of you in the Man-Boy Love Association.”

“Bruncheon’s joke about the North American Man-Boy Love Association isn’t funny,” says Sheldon. “She is making light of child molestation. Does Mrs. Clinton’s commitment to children’s rights, also include adult/child sex?””

@117 You are certainly slow on the uptake, Pud. I could care less what you wrote about Foley. I never brought him up. You brought him up in some pathetic attempt to personally dodge a very real problem facing the Republican party. Nice try. Pedophiles and self-loathing toe-tappers are Republicans and there’s nothing you can do about it now.

Last night, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley was a guest on The Alan Colmes Show, a FOX News radio program. The topic was an interesting one – whether or not an internet service provider should allow Horsley to post the names of abortion doctors on his website. Horsley does that as a way of targeting them and one doctor has been killed. In the course of the interview, however, Colmes asked Horsley about his background, including a statement that he had admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

At first, Horsley laughed and said, “Just because it’s printed in the media, people jump to believe it.”

“Is it true?” Colmes asked.

“Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I…”

AC: “You had sex with animals?”

NH: “Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.”

AC: “I’m not so sure that that is so.”

NH: “You didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?”

AC: “Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?”

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality… Welcome to domestic life on the farm…”

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and “and I don’t think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I’m saying?”

Horsley said, “You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You’re naive. You know better than that… If it’s warm and it’s damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it.”

Wasn’t Eyman supposed to contribute $250,000? How come the PDC reports show nothing from Eyman? He is quoted here saying a contribution is forthcoming. Posted by Tim Eyman, Mukilteo at 5/8/08 11:50 a.m.

to: NW_Native

yes, I’m actually taking out a $250,000 loan from US Bank to loan to the campaign. Our campaign reports are due on Monday and they’ll reflect the $250,000.

Everyone else here has gone back to the snide-remark-not-really-asking-a-real-question approach so no need to respond to those.

Wow Stupes we can run Hummers forever. All we gotta do is believe right wing bullshit and drill every square foot of earth on terra firma and on the continental shelf.

10.4 billion in ANWR? Terrific. Despoil a pristine wilderness for not even two years of current consumption. If the oil companies can crack that nut, then there’s nothing the government won’t let them take.

Again, (and it is wasted on you), oil companies are sitting on piles of leases they haven’t bothered with yet. Asking for more is just to distract from the fact that they’re taking their sweet time to maximize profit from what they have bothered with.

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